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Paul B. '11

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I first stumbled across the word "hacker" when I was six. Since I had no idea what the word actually meant, I did what any good six-year-old would do and asked my mom about it. Understandably concerned, she replied, "Why do you want to know, Paul?" Completely innocently, I said, "Because I think I... read more »

Pick My Halloween Costume!

I feel like dressing up for Halloween this year, but I don't really feel like finding a new costume.

Fortunately, I already have a bunch of things on my closet that I could use as costumes (blame the Assassins' Guild).

Unfortunately, I'm hosed and indecisive.

Conveniently, I have a blog (and a penchant for adverbs).

This calls for crowdsourcing!

Prospective MIT students and blog readers of the world, your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to pick my Halloween costume. Voting will last until Saturday, October 31, at noon. I will actually wear whatever costume you pick, so choose wisely. :)

Chinese Lord!!! (I'm slightly biased since I dressed up as a Chinese emperor last year for a WHAP Mongol trial debate) :D and had a lot of fun with it

Posted by: makesense on October 29, 2009

Oh Paul...you realize that if you dress up as the Chinese Lord you will undoubtedly look like that one dude from Kill Bill...

Posted by: Pledge Salazar on October 29, 2009

I'm in China so I picked Chinese lord! BTW you could also try the assassin's costume from Assassin's creed.

Posted by: FuLanKe on October 29, 2009

Hey Paul - logistics question. Not that I did this, but what's to stop an enterprising individual from refreshing this page, or automating a bot that will vote say, 6.02 x 10 ^ 23 times for a given choice?

Posted by: Elias('14?) on October 29, 2009

Coca-Cola

or

Nurse

Posted by: CustomesLocal on October 29, 2009

Elias: There is a longstanding MIT tradition of hacking web polls. And an equally longstanding one of either accepting the hacked results because it's funnier that way, or ignoring them because they're obviously falsified, depending on whether or not we like the results.

See "Why Alex from Doonesbury went to MIT". (Old FAQ, search for MIT. They sadly seem to have removed the direct link page.)

Posted by: Ariel (Class of older-than-I-want-to-admit) on October 29, 2009

Definitely Ron Weasley!

Posted by: 0 on October 29, 2009

Chinese Lord, yes! My culture! As an inhabitant of Earth of course, because I actually have no connection to China other than that. Well, I love chinese food if that counts...